The Impact Of The Joad Family In John Steinbeck's Grapes Of Wrath

The Great Depression affected the lives of the rural poor. People who farmed were pushed away from their homes when they lost their farms, and money. Some farmers that moved away were called names that made people feel horrible. The biggest effects that caused these impacts on farmers was the Dust Bowl, their lose of money, and Discrimination.
During The Great Depression the Dust Bowl started and affected many of the rural poor people. Farmers were making an abundance of crops so they cut dawn all the trees to make even more. This did not help the farmers but destroy their farms. An abundance of top soil was pushed up and created a big black cloud started to head towards the farms and soon the Dust Bowl started. In the book Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the Joad family was deeply affected by the Dust Bowl. The family was farmers so being hit by the storm put them into poverty and even caused them to lose their home. When the Dust Bowl came the Joads farm was covered in dust and
When farmers and families from southern states moved to bigger cities to find jobs. If people were from Oklahoma city people would call them Okies or Reds.When people were called this while trying to find jobs it was even harder for them to get jobs because the meaning of the names were lazy, unwilling to work, and that you were a member of the communist party. This caused migrant workers to barely ever find jobs, or make money for food and water. Many African American farmers also struggled to find jobs during the great depression because of the discrimination that was happening. Many blacks could not get jobs because of the color of their skin, this put them into debt and poverty. Many black families lost their homes and travelled on foot to find jobs for food and essentials. The discrimination during the Great Depression affected almost all of the rural poor during this